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Rules officials from golf organizations around the world work at the Masters, most of them assigned various parts of the golf course. But it remains the only major championship that doesn't have a rules official walk with every group.

A simple rules infraction ended Tiger Woods' week when simply summoning a rules official would have let him keep a weekend tee time in Abu Dhabi, ESPN.com's Bob Harig writes.

The LPGA Tour says longtime rules official Doug Brecht has died after a three-month battle with the West Nile virus. He was 62.

Three players were disqualified from the Australian Ladies Masters on Friday for unknowingly breaching rules on preferred lies.

PGA rules official David Price had a sinking feeling as he watched Dustin Johnson stroke his final putt in Sunday's final round of the PGA Championship.

Tiger Woods did not back down Tuesday from his criticism of a rules official after the final round of Sunday's WGC-Bridgestone Invitational and said he was not fined for his comments by the PGA Tour.

Tiger Woods will be fined by the PGA Tour for his public criticism of a rules official after winning the Bridgestone Invitational, a tour official said.

A criticism of many of Tiger Woods' contemporaries is they don't show up in the final round. Padraig Harrington didn't falter at Firestone, at least until a rules official sidetracked what had been a fantastic finish.

A Royal & Ancient rules official started his dinner speech with a fantastic impersonation of Seve Ballesteros, which segued to a series of racial and ethnic jokes. One day later, Graham Brown was under more scrutiny than Tiger Woods at the Open.

The lie was so nasty that Carl Pettersson was begging a rules official for relief. The chip shot was so good that he saved par on the 18th hole Sunday morning to complete his third round with a 69, building a two-shot lead in the Memorial.

Tyler Dennis says his MBA program at Cambridge is appealing, but being a rules official on the PGA Tour is what he wants to do.

Unlike the PGA Tour, the LPGA is willing to enforce its rules, as Golf World's Ron Sirak notes.

Ask just about any PGA Tour player or rules official to identify the biggest culprit in slow play, and the Ben Crane's name would top every list.

Rules violations happen on the golf course, but more and more infractions are being called not by an on-site official, but a TV viewer at home.

If Tiger Woods saw an obvious rules violation while watching golf on television, he would not call officials to notify them of the incident.

Sergio Garcia discussed a possible rules violation with PGA Tour officials at Quail Hollow Golf Club after a television viewer called in because it appeared he had marked his ball improperly on the 17th green.